Milton Backman, a professor of Church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University, has written a history of Mormon ism in Ohio in the 1830s. He appears to have consulted virtually all of the primary…
[…] throws more light on this subject than anything yet produced in or out of the Church” (“Book News on Mormon History,” No. 1 p. 3, issued by Deseret Book Company). Much of Hogan’s effort […]
[…] your norms. We need specialized help in education, specialized help in the formative years, special courses in English. We need counseling, we need equal job opportunities for our graduates; other wise our students will […]
[…] it is unperceptive to dismiss Mormonism “as little more than an elaborate idiosyncratic strain of the nineteenth-century search for primitive Christianity” (p. 68), or to perceive twentieth century Mormonism as “an idiosyncratic Protestant denomination” […]
[…] RLDS Church are often con fusing, unrelated, and sometimes exclusive” (p. 3). “Inasmuch as we are in search of new insights, new visions of leadership, and new paths for understanding, it is nothing less […]
It wasn’t written primarily for a Mormon audience. And it wasn’t expected to sell well in Salt Lake City. But Bob Gottlieb and Peter Wiley, both outsiders to the LDS Church and to Utah, have…
[…] discomfort and immense satisfaction of minor league slate-clearing: returning some kept change, admitting plagiarism to his former English teacher, compensating for a job paid for but never completed—all in the presence of his young […]
The sight of seventeen venerable women smiling confidently from the dust jacket is intimidating. I know I’d better like this book. Please let me like this book! Well, it did prove motivating. One day after…
[…] Dec. 1839, LDS Archives. In Preston Nibley, Joseph Smith, The Prophet (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Deseret News Press, 1944), p. 418. Emma Smith Bidamon to Joseph Smith III, 11 Oct. 1866, RLDS Library-Archives. […]
In my journal, I termed it the Sunday Massacre. The disagreement centered on how much money we, the bishopric, could extract in good conscience from our struggling ward members for the stake building fund. I…